How To Cure Your "No Time" Problem

“No time” was the reason that was written in the unsubscribe section of the email notice I got today.

As I looked at the email. I was puzzled. No time. No time for conversation. No time to start a new project. No time for what? Is this someone that I could have helped? Was the door closed to possibility? Yes.

Where there is no communication there is no foundation for conversation. Thus the door is closed. Anyway…

We all have plenty of time. The question is how are we using it. We all have the same amount of time at the beginning of the day. The clock strikes 12 for all of us. But the question is what are you doing with the countless seconds, hours and minutes of the day.

If you are building a business did you make the phone calls, place the ads, set up the campaigns… Or did you not have time?

If you are a parent building a relationship with your child did you say “I love you to your child?”… Or did you not have time?

If you are looking to change the course of your life by setting an important meeting? Did you do it? … Or did you not have time?

What are you doing that is so important that you are not designing your life?

None of the really important things in life take a lot of time. But, we spend our time on the unimportant and the unmeaningful. At the end of the day we say, we don’t have time. And, ask where did the time go?

What to do about it? Get control of your time and your life. It is very low tech. Write out what is important to you. Focus on those things. And get them done.

Your day is a series of tasks. All of them take time. Control the doing of tasks and you control your time. It is that simple. I have been a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done for years. Long before it was popular I was using his thinking to help my day along.

Anyway here is a tool that has made his thinking easier to apply. It is called Nozbe and it am finding that it is making time for me these days.

That’s right you can actually make time. By getting more done faster you are making time. The secret key is to know what needs to be done and do it. If you let it sit, “time” builds up into it. So get the right tools and use them.

Next step next action is my mantra. Make time to make time.

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Enjoy.

– David Bullock